Sheet 06 — Vendors

Preferred Brands

Hardware and software vendors trusted for infrastructure deployments

Servers

Compute platforms for bare-metal deployments and virtualization hosts

PowerEdge servers — reliable workhorses for enterprise and homelab deployments.

ThinkSystem & legacy IBM xSeries — rock-solid build quality and long hardware lifecycles.

High-density, highly configurable servers — ideal for custom builds and dense rack deployments.

Sun Microsystems heritage — SPARC and x86 systems known for exceptional reliability.

Switching gear for campus, data center, and homelab environments

Catalyst & Nexus — industry-standard switching with deep feature sets and wide ecosystem support.

EOS-powered switches — high performance, programmable, and designed for modern data centers.

CX switching platform — intelligent wired and wireless campus networking with solid AI-ops.

FlexFabric & OfficeConnect — enterprise switching from the HP lineage, solid for SMB to large campus.

Routing and security platforms — from enterprise hardware to open-source solutions

High-performance routing on EOS — consistent CLI across switching and routing deployments.

ASR & ISR series — from the gold standard IOS to XE and XR for service provider scale.

Open-source network OS — full-featured routing and firewall running on commodity hardware.

FreeBSD-based firewall and router — flexible, community-driven, and battle-tested in homelabs.

Personal hardware and laptops used for development and homelabs

24GB RAM — lightweight daily driver for travel and light dev work.

Used as my main PC — work, dev, remote, game, etc. (I have two units; they're unstable lol).

Personal laptop — MacBook Pro Retina 15' used as daily driver.

Self build — dedicated gaming and high-performance workstation (based on ASUS components).